We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …

This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax …. Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D -- even for the firms that lobbied for the tax …

We use the World Bank decomposition of aggregate investment shares into their private and public components to test for … the correlation between volatility and investment in a set of developing countries. We uncover a statistically significant … negative correlation between various volatility measures and private investment, even when adding the standard control …

decrease their Ramp;D spending (our main proxy for long-term investment) more than Japanese firms. We find no evidence that …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …

has significant effects on the cost of capital, investment, and economic growth …

This study uncovers a statistically significant negative correlation between volatility and private investment over the … number of different measures, volatility reduces private investment in developing countries. We then show that the …

The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national … and investment in a sample that includes not only 14 industrialized countries, but also 50 developing countries. The paper … developing countries, and higher after 1973 than before. Our interpretation of the saving-investment evidence is that the …